Dr. Edwin K. Abbott was born in Hatley,
Canada on December 27, 1840. During the Civil War, he enlisted into the
9th Illinois Calvary in Company “I” on October 7, 1864
out of Chicago and was mustered out on October 13, 1865 in Chicago.He moved to California and located himself in “Salinas City”.
In 1873 he married Millie E. French. Dr. Abbott died in Monterey at his
residence on Alvarado Street on June 11, 1918; he was taken to the IOOF
Cemetery in Salinas, California.

There is a decent amount of information on this man; the following
are transcriptions from local sketches and obituary, and a incident
article.

ABBOTT,
Edwin K. 1840-1918; Monterey IOOF Cemetery Salinas, CA.

Monterey
and San Benito Counties History and Biological Record Pg. 604

Edwin
K Abbott

In the medical
profession of Monterey county Dr. E.K. Abbott occupies a position of
importance and influence.Noted
for his keen intellectual and mental attainments and for his
professional knowledge and enterprise, he has met with satisfactory
results in his practice of medicine and surgery since coming to the
Pacific coast and has built up an extensive practice throughout Monterey
county, where he holds the rank of being the oldest practitioner in
point of continuous practice.

Dr. Abbott was
born in the town of Hatley, Canada, December 27, 1840, the son of Abiel
B. and Sabrie (Young) Abbott.The
progenitor of this family came to the United States from England and
settled in Massachusetts in 1640 and since that time the family have
been closely identified in all movements for the up building of the
country.When Edwin K. was
but five years of age his parents moved to the Middle West and settled
in DeKalb County, Ill., where the father engaged in farming.It was on this farm that the son was reared and where he received
his early education in the district schools near his home; this was
later supplemented by a course taken in a literary college in Hillsdale,
Mich., form which he was graduated with a degree of A.B. in 1869.In the meantime he had decided to follow the medical profession,
and with this object in view matriculated in the medical department of
the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which, in 1871 he
received his MD.He then
came to California and settled in Salinas, where in addition to the
practice of his profession he also established a drug business.His place of location, no less than the calling which he had
chosen for his life work, had been well selected, and during the
thirty-four years that he was associated with this city and surrounding
country he gained a professional eminence and business standing worthy
of his knowledge and skill.In
1904 Dr. Abbott located in the town of Monterey, whether his fame had
preceded him, and here as in Salinas he stands at the head of the
medical profession; indeed it may well be said of him that he holds this
position throughout the county.

Dr. Abbot's
marriage, which was solemnized in 1873, in Medina, Ohio, united him with
Miss Millie E. French and by this marriage five children have been born,
viz; Dana L., employed with the Spreckles Company; Mary, who died in
early childhood; E. Ruth, a teacher in the Salinas schools, Frederick
A., deceased; and Bertha M., the wife of Carl H. Abbott, residents of
Monterey County.For many
years Dr. Abbott has been affiliated with the Masonic order, having
joined the lodge in Hillsdale, Mich., in 1868, and since coming to
California has transferred his membership to the lodge in Salinas.he is president of the Monterey County medical Society, a member
of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.The doctor is one of the directors of the Pacific Grove museum
and has contributed many botanical specimens to the institution.

Monterey County, Harrison
Page 54

E.K. Abbott
was born in Canada, in December, 1840, but passed his boyhood in
Northern Illinois.He
received his education at Hillsdale College, Michigan, where the
literary degree of A.B. was conferred upon him.He afterwards graduated from the Medical Department of the
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.He served Uncle Sam faithfully under the old flag for one year
during the war.In 1871 he
came to California and located in Salinas City, where he began the
practice of medicine.Two
years later he went east and was married in Medina Ohio, to Miss Millie
E. French of that place, and returned with his bride to Salinas where
they have resided ever since.The
Doctor owns a fine drug store, to which he has added the book and
stationery business.And he
is one of Salinas City's representative Prohibitionists.He has kept the meteorological record for the United States
Government since 1872.

Salinas
Daily Index July 14, 1909

Dr.
Abbott Hurt

He
and Dr. Carlotta Deckelman Hurled Out of Runaway Rig

Dr.
Carlotta Deckelman and Dr. E.K. Abbott were both injured yesterday by
being thrown out of the buggy in which they were riding.The two doctors were returning from Idlewild when the horses they
were driving became frightened and ran away on Sierra hill.

Dr.
Deckelman sustained a fracture of the knee and had several teeth knocked
out and her body was considerably bruises.She was picked up unconscious and taken to Monterey.Dr. Abbott was only slightly hurt.

Both
are well known physicians of this county.Dr. Abbott’s family lives in Salinas.

Salinas
Daily Index June 11, 1918

The
Passing of Dr. E.K. Abbott

Dr.
E.K. Abbott a well known Monterey physician and one of the oldest
practitioners of the county passed away at his home in Monterey last
night.His family was
present as death was not unexpected.

The
deceased was born in Canada, December 27, 1840, and is a direct
descendent of the noted Abbott family of New England.He was educated in Illinois and received a literary degree at
Hillsdale College in 1869. In 1871 he graduated from the University of
Michigan received the degree MD

Dr. Abbott
came to Salinas the same year and began the practice of medicine,
removing to Monterey about ten or eleven years ago.He had three children.His
many friends have learned of his death with sorrow.

Monterey
Daily Cypress June 11, 1918

Pioneer
Doctor Has Passed Away

Dr.
E.K. Abbott Answers Final Summons This Morning

Dr. E.K.
Abbott, who had been practicing medicine in this county for nearly half
a century, passed away at his residence on Alvarado street at an early
hour this morning.Dr.
Abbott had been in a rather weak condition for some time but he had at
all times until the very last insisted upon taking care of his practice.

Dr. Abbott was
born in Canada on November 27th 1840.His people were of the old and well known New England Abbott
family, but had moved to Canada some time before. While he was yet a boy
they moved to Illinois, where he grew to manhood.

He took an
active part in the Civil War for several years and afterwards completed
his studies in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1871.After that he came west to try his fortune, and landed in Salinas
when that place was just beginning to show itself as a town.There he practiced his profession and conducted a pharmacy until
1904, when he came to Monterey.

He joined the
Masonic lodge at a very early age and had been a member for nearly half
a century at the time of his death, being a Past Master of Salinas
Lodge.He was also a member
of a number of other orders and was always a staunch support of the
Chamber of Commerce here.

Dr. Abbott was
a man of strong convictions.Many
years ago, before most of our present day reformers were born, he took
up the prohibition cause and was to the time of his death an outspoken
enemy of strong drink.He
was a virile American and sincerely advocated a sound trouncing for the
Kaiser at our hands before most of our people looked at it that way.

He was widely
acquainted throughout the country and had a host of friends among all
classes of people, bother here and in Salinas.He is survived by his widow and three children- Mrs. Edwin Clough
of Watsonville, Mrs. Carl Abbott of King City and Dana L. Abbott of
Salinas.Three brothers also
survive him, A.H. Abbott of Soledad, P.R. Abbott of Wyoming and O.A.
Abbott of Nebraska.He had
many cousins in this country and was a nephew of the well known pioneer,
Carr Abbott of Salinas.

The
Cypress-American joins the many friends of the decedent in extending
condolences to the bereaved family.The funeral will take place in Salinas at two o’clock Thursday
afternoon.